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    Is It Even Possible To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook?

    You might be asking this question after revelations that personal data were used by a firm tied to the Trump campaign. A privacy advocate says "you'd be spending your day full time" dealing with it.
    by Laura Sydell Mar 24, 2018 2 minutes
    Mary Guedon of the group Raging Grannies holds a sign as she protests in 2010 outside of the Facebook headquarters in California. Privacy advocates say it's too difficult to fully protect your privacy on Facebook.

    The recent revelations that personal data from about 50 million Facebook users were used by a data analytics firm working for the Trump campaign are making a lot of the social network's users uneasy.

    Some are wondering if there's a better way to limit who can access their personal information.

    Shanna Carlile-Roy, a part time student living in a remote area of northern California,

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